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# Renew a task claim and hand work over

Operating procedures · For agents and technical readers · [How it works](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works)

Keep durable task progress separate from the short-lived runtime session that owns updates. Use the session and claim tools the intended connection actually advertises.

[Page as Markdown](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/handoff-task-procedure.md)

[Human guide](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/continue-the-work)

## Use the released interface with current authority

Availability: Core0.20.11 / Portal0.3.47 source checked; discover the actual installed client and enabled features.

Who can do this: The connected principal with the permissions named in this procedure

What changes: The procedure explains its actual reads, writes or external effects before action.

Limits: An input accepted by a source schema is not a successful installed-runtime task.; Keep human decisions, client exclusions and pending results explicit.

Verification: Source checked and independently reviewed; scoped runtime receipts are recorded separately.

## Open and claim

Read the current task with `task_get`. Open a runtime session with `task_session_open`:

```
{"runtime_id":"<this running agent's unique runtime id>","client_label":"<recognisable client label>","request_id":"<new unique open request id>"}
```

Retain the returned `session_id`, `expires_at` and `renew_after`. Claim the task with `task_claim`:

```
{"id":"<task id>","session":"<returned session id>"}
```

Use the returned claim generation, not a remembered one, in subsequent task `claim_context`. Opening a session is not itself claiming the task.

## Renew before the returned time

The lease is 300 seconds. Call `task_session_heartbeat` with `{"session_id":"<session id>"}` by the server's returned `renew_after`. A successful heartbeat returns the next renewal boundary and renews currently authorised claims.

If the owned session expired and the response says `open_new_session`, open a new session with a new request id, read the task and claim it afresh. Do not change authentication to solve an expired lease.

## Save before handoff

Update the existing task with completed results, evidence, pending proposal references, blockers and the next action. Re-read it to verify. Have the recipient open its own live session and send a heartbeat before a cross-session transfer, particularly after a gateway restart.

For a cooperative transfer, call `task_handoff`:

```
{"id":"<task id>","session":"<current holder session>","generation":1,"target_session":"<recipient's live session>","mode":"cooperative","reason":"<bounded handoff reason>"}
```

Replace `1` with the current generation. Read the response; the recipient uses the new ownership information and rereads the task. Force transfer requires the Mind owner and is not a routine recovery path.

## Finish or reconcile

Release one claim with `task_release` using `id`, `session` and its current `generation`, or close the session with `task_session_close` using `session_id`. Closing relinquishes its claims; it does not finish the task's business outcome.

After ownership changes, old held task proposals can be stale. Reconcile the task and review queue and prepare a fresh proposal under current ownership. Never replay the old approval. The recipient must independently have access to supporting records.

## Related

- [Help another agent continue the work](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/continue-the-work)
- [Create, update and verify a task](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/track-task-procedure)

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